Wednesday's sports briefs

Barcelona and Real Madrid have overtaken the New York Yankees as the best-paid global sports teams, according to a British study.

The review published Wednesday showed annual average pay during the 2009-10 season was $7.9 million at Barcelona and $7.4 million at Real Madrid.

The Yankees are paying their players an average of $6.8 million this season. The team last year topped the review which is compiled by www.sportingintelligence.com and is being published by ESPN the Magazine.

The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Orlando Magic occupy the fourth and fifth spots, followed by English Premier League champion Chelsea.

Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal also are among the 30 best-paid teams, making the Premier League the richest soccer league in the world. In the top 30, there are 10 NBA teams and eight MLB clubs.

The report looked at average first-team pay in 14 of the world's leading sports leagues, including Aussie Rules Football and cricket's Indian Premier League.

Rose claims he wasn't drinking Former Michigan and NBA player Jalen Rose told authorities he hadn't been drinking and performed poorly on several tests to determine if he was intoxicated after rolling his Cadillac Escalade on a snowy Michigan road, according to a police report.

Rose, 38, was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.

"While speaking with Jalen, I detected an odor of intoxicants on his breath," West Bloomfield officer Robert Stephens wrote in the report. "I also noticed that Jalen was swaying while he was standing and his eyes were slightly blood shot."

Stephens wrote that he asked Rose if he had any alcohol that evening and was told that "he had none and that he does not drink."

Rose was given several field sobriety tests and had difficulty with each one, Stephens wrote. He had trouble following the horizontal movement of the officer's finger. Rose also could not keep his balance while listening to instructions on walking and turning.

In other basketball news: Former NBA player Oliver Miller was arrested and accused of pistol-whipping a man at a cookout near his Maryland home. Anne Arundel County police have charged him with assault, reckless endangerment and other offenses. Police say they responded to a barbecue on Monday night after a man reported being struck in the face and head by a pistol. Police say Miller drove off and was arrested at his home.

College basketball: Kentucky freshmen Terrence Jones, Brandon Knight and junior DeAndre Liggins are going to enter the NBA draft but will not hire agents in case they change their mind and want to return to college basketball. ... Mitch Henderson is coming back to Princeton to replace former teammate Sydney Johnson as the Tigers' coach. ... Michigan State has hired former Hoosier and current Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne coach Dane Fife as an assistant. ... North Carolina radio play-by-play announcer Woody Durham is retiring after 40 years of calling games.